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Afghanistan: Massoud, Saleh and Mohammadi lead Panjshir resistance against Taliban
It is in these high passes now that another anti-Taliban coalition seems to be forming. As chaos rules in the rest of Afghanistan, the flag of the Northern Alliance was raised in Panjshir a few days ago. Let us look at some players who will play a key role in the new resistance movement:
Taliban raid closed Indian embassies in 2 cities, take away parked cars: Report
The Taliban searched cupboards for papers in the Indian consulate in Kandahar, meanwhile, the detail of Jalalabad’s consulate is not known yet. At Herat, they entered the consulate compound and took away the vehicles without making forcible entry into the consulate.
Guterres says he is ready to speak to Taliban
"I'm ready to speak myself when it is clear with whom should I speak, for what purpose," he said at a briefing for reporters. While answering a question about contacts with the Taliban, he said, "I have not spoken myself, but our people in Afghanistan are in close contact with the Taliban and very strongly conveying that message" of respect for human rights and preventing the use of the territory by terrorists.
4 days after Taliban invasion, streets of Kabul almost devoid of women
The few women who are on the streets could be seen wearing the traditional blue burqa, the Islamic garb, which, despite being customary in Afghanistan, was not used as widely in Kabul until now. All the women are accompanied by a male guardian -- a requirement that the Taliban have imposed on women across the country. Many of these women were out grocery shopping but weren't allowed to step out.
Amid steep price rise, locals in Afghanistan left with little cash in hand
For many essential food items prices have risen over 10-20 times in just the last few days. Some shopkeepers are charging even more. With uncertainty rising, people have resorted to hoarding cash. Further as the US decided to freeze $9.5 billion reserves that the country has in overseas accounts, Da Afghanistan Bank -- the country's Central bank has been unable to provide dollars too at a crucial time. That part several bank branches have shut down.
The long outreach of Chinese security establishment
Whether it is the Uighur issue or tracking those whom China suspects of being involved in anti-China activities or those having indulged in financial crime, Chinese intelligence has been actively pursuing such targets across the world. Healthy relations are exploited by the Chinese to extract mileage on the security front to serve their purpose, as per the Russian daily ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta'.
India to take pivotal role against terror as head of UNSC counter-terror panel
India will be taking over the leadership of the CTC from Tunisia and hopes to build on the gains from Thursday's meeting of the Council on terrorism threats that he presided over. Addressing reporters outside the Security Council chamber after the meeting, he said that he was happy that "a very strong, substantive, clear press statement" was adopted by the Council that addresses the key concerns of India.
'For what?': Joe Biden stands ground on Afghanistan exit
At a time when roughly two-thirds of Americans say they think the Afghanistan war wasn't worth fighting, Biden stood his ground on his decision to exit Afghanistan nearly 20 years after the September 11 attacks. "Are we gonna go to war because of what's goin' on in Tajikistan? What do you think?", Biden told ABC News in a wide ranging interview on America's exit from its longest war.
Taliban hunting down Afghans in military and police: Report
The confidential paper was produced by the Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses, which provides the UN with intelligence information. "The Taliban are arresting and/or threatening to kill or arrest family members of target individuals unless they surrender themselves to the Taliban," the BBC reported. It said that those at particular risk are people with positions in the military, police and investigative units.
Indo-Canadians term Canada's ban on flights from India as 'discriminatory'
As a result of the ban, Indian students and family-class returnees are taking indirect routes to reach Canada, costing them $4,000-$6,000 per person. They are travelling to Canada via Mexico, the Maldives, Doha, Belgrade and Cairo, where they stop for two to 10 nights before taking a Covid test and boarding onward flights. The Canadian authorities suspect that travellers from India are using fake documents about Covid vaccination.
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